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Siegfried Raasch

Siegfried Raasch

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
8468
World Ranking
6361
National Ranking
414

Overview

Siegfried Raasch is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and works primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their research spans across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The main topics explored by Raasch include Wind and Air Flow Studies, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Wind Energy Research and Development, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Aeolian processes and effects.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Raasch cover a range of subjects related to atmospheric modeling, wind energy, and turbulence. These include:

  • Overview of the PALM model system 6.0, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Development of an atmospheric chemistry model coupled to the PALM model system 6.0: implementation and first applications, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Wake properties and power output of very large wind farms for different meteorological conditions and turbine spacings: a large-eddy simulation case study for the German Bight, 2022, Wind energy science
  • Increased Mixing and Turbulence in the Wake of Offshore Wind Farm Foundations, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Atmospheric flow simulation strategies to assess turbulent wind conditions for safe drone operations in urban environments, 2022, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Siegfried Raasch has published multiple papers in the following venues:

  • Geoscientific model development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Wind energy science
  • Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Their frequent co-authors include Matthias Sühring, Björn Maronga, Sebastian Giersch, Sabine Banzhaf, and Renate Forkel.

Best Publications

  • Improvement of the K-profile Model for the Planetary Boundary Layer based on Large Eddy Simulation Data

    Y. Noh;W. G. Cheon;S. Y. Hong;S. Raasch

  • An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer

    Robert J. Beare;Malcolm K. Macvean;Albert A.M. Holtslag;Joan Cuxart

  • The Parallelized Large-Eddy Simulation Model (PALM) version 4.0 for atmospheric and oceanic flows: model formulation, recent developments, and future perspectives

    Björn Maronga;Micha Gryschka;Rieke Heinze;Fabian Hoffmann

  • PALM - A large-eddy simulation model performing on massively parallel computers

    Siegfried Raasch;Michael Schröter

  • Overview of the PALM model system 6.0

    Björn Maronga;Björn Maronga;Sabine Banzhaf;Cornelia Burmeister;Thomas Esch

  • High resolution urban large-eddy simulation studies from street canyon to neighbourhood scale

    Marcus Oliver Letzel;Martina Krane;Siegfried Raasch

  • LES Study of the Energy Imbalance Problem with Eddy Covariance Fluxes

    Manabu Kanda;Atsushi Inagaki;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch

  • A New Aerodynamic Parametrization for Real Urban Surfaces

    Manabu Kanda;Atsushi Inagaki;Takashi Miyamoto;Micha Gryschka

  • Large Eddy Simulation of the Ocean Mixed Layer: The Effects of Wave Breaking and Langmuir Circulation

    Yign Noh;Hong Sik Min;Siegfried Raasch

  • Energy balance closure for the LITFASS-2003 experiment

    Thomas Foken;Matthias Mauder;Matthias Mauder;Claudia Liebethal;Florian Wimmer;Florian Wimmer

  • An Analysis Of Secondary Circulations And Their Effects Caused By Small-Scale Surface Inhomogeneities Using Large-Eddy Simulation

    S. Raasch;G. Harbusch

  • A Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Thermal Effects on Turbulent Flow and Dispersion in and above a Street Canyon

    Seung-Bu Park;Jong-Jin Baik;Siegfried Raasch;Marcus Oliver Letzel

  • A new method for large-eddy simulations of clouds with Lagrangian droplets including the effects of turbulent collision

    Theres Riechelmann;Y. Noh;Siegfried Raasch

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Surface Heterogeneity Effects on the Convective Boundary Layer During the LITFASS-2003 Experiment

    Björn Maronga;Siegfried Raasch

  • Spatial representativeness of single tower measurements and the imbalance problem with eddy-covariance fluxes: results of a large-eddy simulation study

    Gerald Steinfeld;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch;Manabu Kanda

  • Impact of surface heterogeneity on energy imbalance : A study using LES

    Atsushi Inagaki;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch;Manabu Kanda

  • Large Eddy Simulation of Thermally Induced Oscillations in the Convective Boundary Layer

    Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch

  • A New Research Approach for Observing and Characterizing Land-Atmosphere Feedback

    Volker Wulfmeyer;David D. Turner;B. Baker;R. Banta

  • Ventilation and Air Quality in City Blocks Using Large-Eddy Simulation—Urban Planning Perspective

    Mona Kurppa;Antti Hellsten;Mikko Auvinen;Siegfried Raasch

  • Roll Vortices and Boundary-Layer Development during a Cold Air Outbreak

    Jörg Hartmann;Christoph Kottmeier;Christoph Kottmeier;Siegfried Raasch

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Mauder
Matthias Mauder Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Renate Forkel
Renate Forkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Foken
Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth
Manabu Kanda
Manabu Kanda Tokyo Institute of Technology
Edward Ng
Edward Ng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andreas Matzarakis
Andreas Matzarakis University of Freiburg
Gunther Seckmeyer
Gunther Seckmeyer University of Hannover
Eva Falge
Eva Falge German Meteorological Service
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Christoph Kottmeier
Christoph Kottmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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